It is inevitable that during our lives we will suffer financial reversals. For people living paycheck to paycheck, an interruption in income can be devastating. Whether this is a result of loss of employment, illness, or injury, help is available to people for people suffering financial crises. Though I wrote Battered and Broke: How To Make Ends meet When Your Workers’ Compensation Claim is Denied for people who have suffered work-related injuries or illnesses, the resources described in the book are accessible to anyone who has suffered a financial tragedy. Council 13 of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) has prepared a valuable guidebook for those who have suffered a job loss: “When The Paycheck Stops: An AFSCME Survival Guide to Unemployment.”